billiani Posted February 13, 2008 Report Share Posted February 13, 2008 Hi Pete, I have installed "TSR Electronic Checklist" on my PM GC ND Client. On the same client I am running PM RCDU connected to an Engravity CDU via COM Port 4. Using WIDECLIENT 6.758 everything works fine, WideFS Log looks like this: ********* WideClient Log [version 6.758] Class=FS98MAIN ********* Date (dmy): 13/02/08, Time 10:08:20.015: Client name is FO 94 New Client Application: "RCDU" (Id=3388) 109 Attempting to connect now 156 New Client Application: "pfd" (Id=480) 15688 Server = SIM 15688 Trying TCP/IP host "SIM" port 8002 ... 15688Okay, IP Address = 192.168.0.100 15688 Connection made okay! 15703 Okay, registered hotkeys for use with TSR checklist 27313 New Client Application: "Electronic-Checklist" (Id=2708) The one and only problem is, the checklist is properly displayed in my ND but the program does not react (on the RCDU) to PREV PAGE, NEXT PAGE, EXEC, CLR or DEL as described. Is Engravity supported by WIDECLIENT 6.758 ??? This is my WideClient.ini: ; PLEASE SEE WideFS documentation for parameter details ; ===================================================== [Config] ServerIPAddr=192.168.0.100 Port=8002 Window=32000,32000,112,27 Visible=Yes ButtonScanInterval=20 ClassInstance=0 NetworkTiming=5,1 MailslotTiming=2000,1000 PollInterval=2000 Port2=9002 ResponseTime=18 ApplicationDelay=0 TCPcoalesce=No WaitForNewData=500 MaxSendQ=100 OnMaxSendQ=Log NewSendScanTime=50 Priority=3,1,2 ; ----------------------------------------------- [user] Log=Errors+ TSRchecklist=RCDU AllowShutdown=Yes ; =============================================== Thanks a lot, appreciate your help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Dowson Posted February 13, 2008 Report Share Posted February 13, 2008 The one and only problem is, the checklist is properly displayed in my ND but the program does not react (on the RCDU) to PREV PAGE, NEXT PAGE, EXEC, CLR or DEL as described. ... Is Engravity supported by WIDECLIENT 6.758 ? I've no idea. Sorry Let me explain. According to the PM CDU / RCDU documentation, the CDU keys used fir those functions are the actual Keyboard Codes as follows: Page Up == PREV PAGE Page Down == NEXT PAGE Return/Enter = EXEC Delete = DEL Backspace = CLR The change in WideClient for the Checklist was specifically to "hot key" those keys. i.e. intercept the Page Up, Page Down, Delete, Backspace and Enter keys, and, if the Checklist is being displayed, to instead manipulate bits in its control offsets in FSUIPC so that it did its job. If the Checklist is not shown, the keys are instead used to manipulate the CDU or RCDU program according to its FSUIPC offsets. The only exception is that if the Backspace key is seen within half a second of the Delete key, or vice versa, the "show Checklist" command is sent to the Checklist's offset. Now the only hardware CDU I have access to is the PFC one, which is basically a little PC with the CDU Keys being its keyboard and the little screen being its video screen. I perhaps mistakenly (?) assumed other hardware implementations would be similar in nature. Is the one you use different? If it is merely a matter of Hot-Keying different keys that is easy to do. Let me know. [LATER} Aaarrrggghhh! I've only just noticed this part of your message. Sorry: On the same client I am running PM RCDU connected to an Engravity CDU via COM Port 4. How on Earth does it work via a COM port? Is the RCDU program directly controlling the screen and the keypad? How do you get the Checklist showing there? If the keyboard sends signals direct to the RCDU program, I don't know how to intercept them and use them I'm afraid. If this is how such hardware CDUs are implemented I think the only solution will be to ask Enrico for a facility in the CDU/RCDU program to do the same as WideClient when the Checklist is loaded too. [LATER STILL] Oh, I must learn to read these messages more carefully. NOW I notice this: the checklist is properly displayed in my ND ND? The facility in WideClient is designed to allow the Checklist to be used on the CDU, not the ND. If the CDU is displaying its own details, there's no way I would want to steal any of its keys to drive an ND display in any case. That would be totally wrong. If you are using the ND for the checklist I would say you should be using buttons or switches on your main instrument panel to drive it -- you can program them to operate the Checklist offsets directly, using the appropriate FSUIPC Offset controls as Thomas has documented. Regards Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billiani Posted February 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2008 Hello Pete, there has been a wrong assumption from my side! I thought, that it is possible to show the checklist on the PM ND in my Cocpkit, controlling it via the RCDU Keys of my Engravity Hardware, and that's not possible! Your development was to run the program on a CDU with a Windows based Screen completely. Right? Cheers René Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Dowson Posted February 14, 2008 Report Share Posted February 14, 2008 Your development was to run the program on a CDU with a Windows based Screen completely. Right? Yes (I think it says that in the chat I supplied to Thomas), though that doesn't seem possible with the Engravity one, though. Sorry. Regards Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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